Body of man found at Ormond Beach

James Glover II / Star staff 9/2/8 OXNARD- A member of the Oxnard Police crime scene Investigation team photographs the area where a body was found on Ormond Beach in Oxnrad on September 2, 2008.

James Glover II / Star staff 9/2/8 OXNARD- Deputy Medical Examiner Shasta Gainer talks with Oxnard Police Officer David Landsuerk while Oxnard Police officer Jamie Brown, right, helps survey the area where a body was found on Ormond Beach in Oxnrad on September 2, 2008.

Oxnard police said the body of a man was discovered at Ormond Beach this morning.

Police spokesman David Keith said the man was well dressed and did not appear to be a transient. He was found lying face up on the sand about a half mile south of the Hueneme Pier. The man appeared to have a yellow rope tied around his neck.

Investigators combed the area around the body this morning, looking for clues to the man's death.

Authorities would not rule out suicide. They added the man did not appear to have died from natural causes.

Authorities did not release the man's name nor where he lived.

His body was found near to where a 28-year-old Oxnard man was discovered dead in January 2007.

Roberto Carlos Chavez Nuñez was killed by a gunshot to the head, authorities said.